Combined button and pin



(No Model.)

B. M. CHAPMAN.

COMBINED BUTTON AND PIN. No. 326,717. Patented Sept. 22, 1885.

mnesses D [menta NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EUGENE M. CHAPMAN, OF HOLYOKE, MASSACHUSETTS.

COMBINED BUTTON AND PIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 326,717, dated September 22, 1885.

(X0 model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EUGENE M. CHAPMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hol yoke, in the county of Hampden and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Combined Pin and Detachable Button for Clothing, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the ac companying drawing, forming a part thereof.

My invention relates to improvements in combined pins and buttons for clothing; and the objects of my improvements are to provide a more convenient, efficient, and durable de vice than at present in use for the given service. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which A is a button formed upon or permanently attached to the plate B. The said plate B is formed of sheet metal, punched, cut, or otherwise produced substantially of the shape indicated. One end of the plate is turned over into cylindrical form, as shown at O, for the purpose of making a bearing for the central portion of thepin D. The other end of the plate B is bent twice at right angles at E, and the projections provided at the end E of the plate B are bent up to form the lips c e, as shown. The object of the lips e e is to provide catches or pockets for the ends (I d of the pin D,when closed, as hereinafter described. The external angles made by turning up the lips e e are gether than the lips e 6, will be spread apart, pass up outside of the lips to their top, and snap into the position (I d. By the cylindrical part 0 of the plate B are provided ears b-one on each sideto act as stops for the pin D when near its closed position, and to incline the points of the pin to remain in place when received by the lips e e.

Myinventionis applied by passing thepoints d (Z of the pin through the clothas, for instance,at the top of pantaloons and drawers and bringing to position (I d, thereby securely attaching the plate B and leaving the button A ready for use.

The object of convenience sought in my invention is obtained by the use of the cylindrical bearing 0 for the pin D, which allows the pin to be opened to any desired degree, and by the general combination, as described. Efficiency and durability are secured by the use of a double pin, as described, and by the attachment of the pin in a manner adapted to withstand the strain without bending or releasing the pin.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a combined pin and button for clothing, the combination of the button A, plate B, bearing 0, pin D, ears I), and lips e e, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

EUGENE M. CHAPMAN.

\Vitnesses:

O. D. KING, H. K. HAWES. 

